Ladies Drive with new academy for young female entrepreneurs

The Ladies Drive start-up community has a vision: to bring together and network women who want to make a difference. The founders Sandra-Stella and Sebastian Triebl have been working with what the hashtag #womensupportwomen promises today since 2007, the first day. For ten years, the community based in Lutzenberg (Appenzell-Ausserrhoden) has been offering various formats for female founders - including the Female Innovation Forum - and now has its own academy.

Companies and personalities have now come together who were willing to support the Academy with their expertise. Some of Switzerland's most successful entrepreneurs, VCs and investors, lawyers, HR and innovation coaches as well as successful startup founders share their knowledge at the Ladies Drive Academy. Such as Gina Domanig, Roland Brack, Andrea Isler, Giada Ilardo, Léa Miggiano, Tatiana Duvanskaya and Melanie Winiger. The strategic partners include the law firm Bratschi AG (with Elisa Aliotta, Sandra De Vito (Managing Partner) and the Bratschi Founder Academy team), the transformation and digitalization experts from emediately AG - Andrea Luder and Pia Uthmann - as well as the agency PRfact AG and its Managing Partner Mira Zawrzykraj.

Online and offline courses

The coaches support the founders in various online and offline courses free of charge for one year. All young female entrepreneurs who founded their company less than 900 days ago can now apply. The strategic partner companies (PRfact AG, Bratschi AG, emediately AG and Ladies Drive) will then select the best 30 of all applicants to start at the Academy from April 19, 2024. The young female entrepreneurs should be able to use the support to build up their company as quickly as possible, but also successfully. And also strengthen Switzerland as a business location with their sustainable success.